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Special Features
- Documentary feature Jordi Savall: In Search of the Perfect Sound
- Interviews with director Alain Corneau, actor Jean-Pierre Marielle and composer/conductor Jordi Savall
- Making of Featurette
- Cesar Awards Footage
- Original French Theatrical Trailer
- Commemorative 8 Page Booklet
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Gérard Depardieu plays a court composer at Versailles whose sense of artistic emptiness causes him to reflect upon his old music teacher (Jean-Pierre Marielle), a man who taught him more than music but whom he ultimately betrayed. (The younger version of Depardieu's character is portrayed by the actor's son, Guillaume.) Alain Corneau's gorgeous 1991 film has a slow, deliberative air about it, with little dialogue and a painterly look (shot by cinematographer-director Yves Angelo, maker of Colonel Chabert) that paradoxically inspires both excitement and meditation. A period costume piece that chooses to understate pageantry for ideas and emotions, this film is quite special. --Tom Keogh
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In the dazzling tradition of Amadeus, Tous les Matins du Monde is a seductive tale of music and passion set in provocative 17th century France. Academy Award® nominee Gérard Depardieu (Best Actor – Cyrano de Bergerac) stars in a fascinating story filled with romance, lust, desire, devotion, revenge and intrigue. A reclusive composer and his two beautiful daughters’ lives are forever changed by a flamboyant young student who enters their lives. See for yourself why critics and audiences alike are applauding this magnificent film and celebrated winner of 7 César Awards including Best Picture!
Background on the Film The film is the result of the collaboration between novelist Pascal Quignard, director Alain Corneau and musician Jordi Savall who wanted to do a film on music. Quignard wrote and adapted the book to a screenplay.
The film was a phenomenal success and sold 2 million tickets in the first year and was distributed in 31 countries. The soundtrack was certified platinum (500,000 copies) and made Jordi Savall an international star.
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89 of 91 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This film is a feast for the senses--and the spirit. The story is a fictionalized version of the apprenticeship of a famous viol player, Marais, in the 1600's. His teacher, the legendary Sainte Colombe is a man who makes a spiritual discipline of playing music to the exclusion of nearly all else. Sainte Colombe's talent is supposed to be so great that he can imitate any human sound. Yet he does not care about fame and fortune. He shuns the frivolity of the French court of Louis XIV and even refuses to go to court when commanded by the King who wishes to hear him play.
Sainte Colombe fires his young disciple Marais despite his considerable talent. Colombe states in essence that Marais' astounding techinical expertise aside that there is no music in what he plays. Marais goes on to become court musician but still yearns to learn from the master.
This incredible story was filmed with precision and artistry. Each scene looks looks like a renaissance painting. The story is sad and haunting--clearly many of the characters are clinically depressed. Yet somehow this film conveys an unearthly beauty and dedication to art that is inspiring.
In addition the music is a wonderful discovery. Having never heard these composers it is a joy to be exposed to these plaintive complex melodies.
Sainte Colombe fires his young disciple Marais despite his considerable talent. Colombe states in essence that Marais' astounding techinical expertise aside that there is no music in what he plays. Marais goes on to become court musician but still yearns to learn from the master.
This incredible story was filmed with precision and artistry. Each scene looks looks like a renaissance painting. The story is sad and haunting--clearly many of the characters are clinically depressed. Yet somehow this film conveys an unearthly beauty and dedication to art that is inspiring.
In addition the music is a wonderful discovery. Having never heard these composers it is a joy to be exposed to these plaintive complex melodies.
63 of 65 people found the following review helpful
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I first saw this movie during its theatrical run and found it so haunting that I have had to watch it again and again. It seems to me that, like many European movies, there is an overriding idea running behind the incidents of the story. In this case, the overriding idea is that love has different forms and levels.
The plot, which is set primarily in the middle years of the 17th century in France (1640-1670), involves the interrelationship between the familiy of Monsieur de St. Colombe, a great, but reclusive virtuoso on the viola da gamba, his two daughters, and Marin Marais, St. Colombe's pupil who becomes a successful player and composer on the viola da gamba.
The great contrast is between St.Colombe's intensely passionate interior life (his "vie passione") and Marais' superficial one. St.Colombe's intense love for music and grief for his dead wife excludes everything else, even his own daughters. Marais is unable to love anything or anyone deeply enough and uses both Madeleine de St.Colombe and music to suit his own selfish ends. He is cold rather than passionate. Yet, at the end, his goals achieved, he finds the rewards of being cool so empty that he must return to St.Colombe where he, at last, begins to explore the depths of feeling which attracted him to music in the first place. He eventually breaks through to this depth enough to merit the approval of his master's ghost.
Given the film's meditative themes of love, grief, loneliness and the damage of ambition and it's rather brooding quality it isn't for everyone. The subtitles often are superficial, especially when dealing with matters of 17th century French politics and religion (translating every mention of the Jansenist circle at Port-Royal as "the reformists" for example). However, the film looks and feels right to this Baroque art historian and amateur musician. As an exploration of the intensity which humans are capable of expressing it is a masterpiece.
The plot, which is set primarily in the middle years of the 17th century in France (1640-1670), involves the interrelationship between the familiy of Monsieur de St. Colombe, a great, but reclusive virtuoso on the viola da gamba, his two daughters, and Marin Marais, St. Colombe's pupil who becomes a successful player and composer on the viola da gamba.
The great contrast is between St.Colombe's intensely passionate interior life (his "vie passione") and Marais' superficial one. St.Colombe's intense love for music and grief for his dead wife excludes everything else, even his own daughters. Marais is unable to love anything or anyone deeply enough and uses both Madeleine de St.Colombe and music to suit his own selfish ends. He is cold rather than passionate. Yet, at the end, his goals achieved, he finds the rewards of being cool so empty that he must return to St.Colombe where he, at last, begins to explore the depths of feeling which attracted him to music in the first place. He eventually breaks through to this depth enough to merit the approval of his master's ghost.
Given the film's meditative themes of love, grief, loneliness and the damage of ambition and it's rather brooding quality it isn't for everyone. The subtitles often are superficial, especially when dealing with matters of 17th century French politics and religion (translating every mention of the Jansenist circle at Port-Royal as "the reformists" for example). However, the film looks and feels right to this Baroque art historian and amateur musician. As an exploration of the intensity which humans are capable of expressing it is a masterpiece.
60 of 62 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
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This haunting story is based on the historical relationship between Marain Marais and this teacher St Columbo, two of the most renown gambists of all time (the gamba is a stringed, fretted instrument, popular in the 1700's, which looks something like a cello).
St. Columbo (his first name is unknown) is an extremely dark and complex person, "all passion and rage yet mute as a fish". When his beautiful young wife dies unexpectedly he retreats from the world, devoting his life to his instrument and his art. Although recognized as the finest gambist in France, he becomes a recluse, defying even the king's order to play at the royal court.
What is the meaning of music? Is it to impress one's rivals? To entertain? For gold? No, says the master, none of these. And one who makes music is not necessarily a musician. The young Marais, who has become his student, struggles to fathom its meaning. . Great attention is paid to details and authenticity. The viewer is given glimpses of the lavish court of France in the 1700's, the decadence of the privileged, and immersed in a sound track of Marais' exquisite French baroque music performed by virtuoso players.
There is a love interest between Marais and Columbo's eldest daughter (also an accomplished gambist), which, although almost incidental to the plot, allows the film to be billed as a passionate love story. Other than a few graphic moments, however, All the Mornings of the World is a story of the love of music, rather than carnal love
All the Mornings is a must-see for people with artistic inclinations. Those who love baroque music (1600-1750) will definitely want to order this film. And if you should happen to play the viola da gamba you have no choice but to purchase it (sheet music for much of the sound track is available in a collection from the Boulder Early Music Shop, if you feel adventuresome).
For the esoteric viewer, All the Mornings rates five stars.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Movie
I saw it many, many years ago and forgot how good it was. Excellent acting, plot and character development, Excellent movie! Received this product in a timely fashion.
Published 26 days ago by Lisa Y
5.0 out of 5 stars
Lovely film.
I bought this especially to hear the music of St. Colombe and Marais, but the movie was beautifully made and the separate interviews with Jordi Savall were very interesting. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Salzburg
5.0 out of 5 stars
Every Great Morning is Music
There have been many films that have explored the mystery of the creative process, but what makes All the Mornings of the World unique for me is that I am convinced all great art... Read more
Published 3 months ago by theairburns
5.0 out of 5 stars
Art
Love this movie. It's an art film about what makes an artist an artist, but is not pretentious or off-putting. Read more
Published 5 months ago by BigD
5.0 out of 5 stars
Passion! Philosophy! Love and Music!
I've lived this movie! Perfection. I don't know how it could be better. I can't say much more... you need to see it. De Profundis!
Published 5 months ago by Daryl Lewis
5.0 out of 5 stars
All the Mornings of the World
If you love Baroque music, this is one for you! If you love cello music (viola da gamba, strictly speaking), this one's for you. If you love a good story, this one's for you. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Douglas G. Thomas
5.0 out of 5 stars
all the mornings of the world
In the movie All the mornings of the world,is a story of romance,lust,desire and devotion. Was a young man learning to masterpiece a classical soundtrack conducted by Jordi Savall. Read more
Published 9 months ago by big guy
2.0 out of 5 stars
fascinating for a while, then gets boring
On the positive side, you may never hear a cello the same way again. It's also one "arty" movie where the story is clear and coherent. Read more
Published 11 months ago by rwx
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Little Anachronistic, but Lovely Nevertheless
We tend to forget that before the Romantic period, ushered in by Goethe and consolidated by the likes of Wordsworth and Pushkin, artists were considered more as artisans than as... Read more
Published on March 14, 2011 by Allan M. Lees
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful Story
All the Mornings of the World (Tous les matins du monde) Two-Disc Edition
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Published on January 8, 2011 by Eddie Nguyen
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